Music 1102A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Ostinato, Recitative, Aria
25 Apr 2018
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Baroque textures, harmonies, and forms tend to be more free than in renaissance music. Affect (expression of one particular emotion) become all-important. Baroque affect is what drives all of baroque music. Affect is a particular emotional response that is appropriate for the music that you are playing and the way you get it is by engineering your music to affect the chemicals in your audiences bodies. The arts projected by power and authority. Rulers vied to ns and retain the best artists. Handel worked for king george i of england. Lully worked for king louis xiv of france. Bach worked for the margrave of brandenburg. The arts projected power of the church. Church music and architecture built intricate structures around simple themes. First public opera house opened in venice, 1637. Impresarios (producers) invested in new productions and famous singers. Oratorios were unstated operas based on sacred subjects, performed during let. Rulers and the public coveted virtuoso singers and instrumentalists.
